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Gameday

Bowl game events reminder

We’re adding band events to our Events calendar as we get them confirmed, but this is a good time to remind everyone that the events on the calendar are attached to a time zone. Normally this is Central Time (either CDT or CST), but for the Sun Bowl, events in El Paso are in Mountain Standard Time. Since the time zone is attached, then if you subscribe on your computer in iCal or Windows Calendar, it should work just fine. For example, my computer shows the game at 1:00 PM CST on December 31, when it’s entered as December 31, 2009, 12:00 PM MST. As long as your computer’s time zone is correct, iCal (or, as far as I know, Windows Calendar) will show you all events in the same time zone as your computer. The Web version of the calendar, however, does not know what time zone you’re in, and it defaults to Central Time because that’s where OU is. If you’re going to the Sun Bowl with a computer and want to check on events, or if you want to print out a calendar before you go, then first click on this link to set your web calendar preferences and tell it that your time zone is “America/Denver” (or some other city in Mountain Standard Time). If you don’t do this, you’ll see starting times in Central Time from anywhere in the world, and you’ll be an hour early to everything in El Paso—which is not such a bad thing, but probably not exactly what you want. Again, if you’re using iCal or Windows Calendar, then the times will all shift correctly as long as you tell your computer when you change time zones. If you use only the Web calendar, however, you have to tell it manually and separately when you change time zones or you’ll only see the starting times as they are in Norman. Contact me if you have any questions about that. Posted by Webmaster on 12/23/09; 12:31:38 AM from the Gameday dept. Discuss #

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